New South
New South, New South Democracy or New South Creed is a slogan in the history of the Southern United States, first used during the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War. Reformers of that period used the term to call for a modernization of Southern society and attitudes, an integration more fully with the United States as a whole, and a rejection of the economy and traditions of the Old South and the slavery-based plantation system of the prewar period while still maintaining white supremacy through Jim Crow laws and political disenfranchisement.